Adjective "arced" definition and examples

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Pronunciation

/ɑːk/

Definitions and examples

noun

A part of a curve, especially a part of the circumference of a circle.

'These jumps from one number to the next can be visualized as arcs of circles along a number line.'

'All delineations are arcs of a circle, the perfect, complete, easily fractured and reassembled building block of the universe.'

'He produced a number of formulas for triangles, two sides of which were straight lines and the third was the arc of a circle.'

'The question of interest concerns whether, strictly speaking, these arcs form a circle.'

'The proof we have examined in detail is one where the outer circumference of the lune is the arc of a semicircle.'

'The third part of Mathematical exercises was on the Riccati differential equation while the final part was on a geometry question concerning figures bounded by two arcs of a circle.'

'the huge arc of the sky'

'From the outside it sits neatly in the arc of beautiful townhouse mansions with the fluttering Union Jack over the discreet entrance - the only clue that it is a hotel.'

'On a clear day you can see Ben Nevis in the west and Buchan Ness in the east and beyond Corryhabbie Hill on the opposite side of Glen Rinnes Lochnager and the arc of the Cairngorms form the distant horizon.'

'His version of Château Lafite follows the original French blueprints but adds two extra floors, and has the building's two wings linked by an arc of Romanesque columns.'

'How many directors dare tell any diva that the first thing they want her to do, as she makes her grand entrance, is dip her head in a bucket and throw back her hair, spraying an arc of water across the stage?'

'From the top of a bluff on a clear day, with the sun melting the tarmac and baking my thighs, the deep-blue arc of the horizon looks like the edge of the earth.'

'A dramatic arc of water is created as four women enjoy a communal bathing session in Son La province, north-western Vietnam.'

'Climbing back up, I see an open bay to the west, an arc of cliffs fringed by the grasslands of Ka'u.'

'He moved through the crowd schmoozing and smiling, surrounded by an arc of secret service agents, his suit jacket tossed saucily over his shoulder.'

'Trenna observed the way the cavern was shaped: there was a large arc of rock that concealed one half of the cavern from the other.'

'The Confederate frigate Halberd swung a wide arc around the freighter's stern and approached her docking port from aft.'

'Inhale slightly more than usual and hold your breath as you lower the weights in a wide arc out to your sides.'

'I bit my lip as I turned on the tip of my foot, my arms swinging out in wide arcs.'

'She swung the blade in a wide arc, the edge tilted slightly.'

'On a hard, fast green it is necessary to take a wide arc to reach the jack.'

'Right now, she was employing another of her favourite gestures - sweeping her arm in a wide arc above her head and clicking her fingers so hard it must have hurt.'

'At this moment Nukite awoke from his deep slumber, his eyes closed in the early morning sunlight he rose slowly to his feet, stretching his arms in a wide arc as he did so.'

'The tadpoles can also turn in much wider arcs, which they do spontaneously, when they initiate swimming from rest, and in the course of normal locomotion.'

'Batman swings in a wide arc and is pulled upward.'

'‘A decade ago,’ Eldoris murmured, making a wide arc with her arm to accentuate her words.'

'The other arc functions, acos, and atan, behave as their more-familiar counterparts.'

A luminous electrical discharge between two electrodes or other points.

'This is not someone dropping a switch and seeing an arc of electricity.'

'This path is the glowing area associated with an arc / spark, and is the same phenomenon as lightning, although on a much smaller scale.'